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[…] out the Caps — actually the Indianapolis Capitols — were a member of the short-lived Continental Football League. The CFL began play in 1965, five seasons after the American Football League, and folded after the […]

CONTINENTAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1965-1969
I have a free website about the third league of majorprofessional football of the 1960’s, the 1965-1969Continental FootballLeague, http://www.boosterclubcfl.com.USERNAME:- ( also my personal email address ) dennis_kuno2000@yahoo.com;PASSWORD:- boggie.
Monday Night Football was originally supposed to be by contract between ABC and the Continental Football Leagueafter the 1965 season. It was stolen by the NFL illegally,and Bill Walsh, spoke about it openly before his passing. The following season, the new Overmeyer/United Network was also going to begin national televising the Continental Football League beginning in 1967. NBC bought the entire network to keep the Continental Football League away from national exposure and subsidation as had the then AFL and NFL had through the NBC and CBS networks themselves. Albert “Happy” Chandler, was the Continental Football League’s first commissioner, he had been both a former Governor and Senator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, as well as, the former Commissioner of Baseball, during the time both Jackie Robinson joined the National Baseball League, and Lary Doby joined the American Baseball League. After Commissioner Chandler was forced out by naive owners of the Continental Football League, he was replaced by perhaps the most incompetitent Commissioner of any major sports league, Sol Rosen. As the contract was broken by ABC, Rosen did not bring legal suit, nor did he do so when NBC purchased the Overmeyer/United Network. During the five year span of the Continental Football League, there were more minority players in the Continental Football League, than the American, Canadian, and National Football Leagues combined. Was the reason for the suppression of the Continental Football League for economic reasons to keep the status quo, or was the suppression based on racial descrimination? Discrimination toward Afro-American football players was not the only group absent during the five year span of the Continental Football League; Hispanic/Latino players also were a rarity in the American, Canadian, and National Football Leagues, yet, they were just as valuable to the Continental Football League as they too had the opportunity to play professional football at this level in the Continental Football League. There were also more Asian-American football players in the Continental Football League, including the first Japanese football player from Tokyo University in Mustake Kusatau.